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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Gonna keep trying to move over here more. Been listening to the Graham Lambkin Solos box set over the last few days and I've been having a really beautiful time doing so!

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Hi all, popping back in to share my ridiculous haul from the local record fair today. A store I never am able to get to often gets scary collections and it just so happens the collection this time was pristine ECMs, including the genuine shocker at the end

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hell yeah, I'm going to a screening of it Saturday night, so stoked

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Gonna once again (again, again) try to transfer over here. Any ECM/jazz/"music"/movie buds from over there I might not be following, please raise yr hand!

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I had an uninterrupted chunk for the first two pieces, but it does work wonderfully as three individual discs/four individual works as well

Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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Reminder that Necks fans should check out our Other Light Ensemble release, featuring Necks drummer Tony Buck and Patrick Shiroishi!

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Definitely!! Second track reminds me a lot of Drive By and Sex in that it sticks to it's core theme while all sorts of things ebb and flow around it, but it has a particularly beautiful swell towards the middle

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

popping back on here to let everybody know that the new Necks album is absolutely incredible and continues to reveal more of itself with every listen

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poking in to this JAPO Joint that I've been curious about for a while, another in the long line of "lets just play some songs written by Carla Bley" records. This one shifts between prickly amorphous shred and subtle, spacious ambiance. Good stuff!!

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Love Love rips but Polarization is also on ECM!

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

(maybe I should come post here some more?) now Swooning; I had a real burst of Steve Kuhn energy ages ago but I haven't dug back in to any of his work since then - deftly ebbing/flowing between new age cascades and string-snapping force. Almost Cecil Taylor-esque in glances! A stunner!

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

now digging; despite everything I've never really done a deep dive into Sun Ra's discog, so now I'm gonna! What's yr favorite Sun Ra record?

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

kinda big part of why I can't hang on this site too much is this extreme almost giddy doomer mindset people have. it's bad for you! believe a better world is possible!!!!

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

if you're thinking like this you're just kinda letting them win already

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Being able to hold a twisted, distorted visage in ones own two hands and mold it into relentless kindness is the only currency that will matter in the near and distant future. The electric guitar offers us an opportunity to learn how" Thank you guitar, thank you Cyrus Pireh

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

God one can only dream of such a glory

Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨NEW NECKS TRIPLE ALBUM IN OCTOBER THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨🚨🚨

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I've been thinking similar things since the other morning when I was on the subway and I saw a guy clearly on drugs (he made it clear by saying so) in dockers and a gingham shirt telling two strangers that their baby was so beautiful it made him want to be a father.

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The Subway Is Not Scary

Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

An absolute must listen; can only wonder the kind of music they'd be making together, here, now, in this moment.

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Deftly tiptoes between traditional musics and large group freak-outs in the way that only Bley could concoct, and features what might be (if I really had to pick) my favorite piece of music on the label as a whole, Silence, in tip-top form here.

Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The second of a handful of Haden/Bley's Liberation Music Orchestra excursions, an exuberant, overflowing rallying cry for people who's voices can't be amplified on their own, full of anger and fury and beauty from every corner.

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

now spinning; significantly more interesting than that AllMusic review gives it credit for, lots of blissful saccharine moments alongside some real blistering shred

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

next up; I met someone at Big Ears who was the self proclaimed biggest Hermeto fan in the world (I believe him) and he said this was his favorite!

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

gonna keep ripping thru Hermeto's discography, someone I've really been meaning to get into for years (no time like the present!)

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It's a label I could never possibly be an expert on due to how vast it is, but will also scoop up sound unheard whenever I see one in the bins

the other half is just out of frame!

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A Delicate Motor - a delicate motor

Well the third disc on the shelf was something that wasn't on Discogs (old friend ADM's first album) so I guess I'm gonna go real deep and whip up some release records while I'm at it www.discogs.com/release/3422...

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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2013 CD release of "a delicate motor" on Discogs.

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I just use Discogs, which is good enough for me. My dad was a big catraxx head (I think) before it became abandonware

oh trust me there are piles like this scattered all over the house - another reason to finally be doing this!

Right now these are (mostly) Band Name/Artist Last Name Alphabetically > Album Title Alphabetically, but will (finally) be Name > Album Chronologically as the records are. ECM and Tzadik will probably get their own shelves!

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Been on the Swans CD collection tip for many, many years - got into them right before the reunion so the compilation discs were plentiful!

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Been actively trying to get off of my phone throughout the day, so I'm gonna start cataloging the whole CD shelf (which I've been meaning to do since I did the same with the records in 2020) or: You Can Only Pick One

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Actual image, a plate of oysters But this nonsense is getting likes...

Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

can we get a cohesive list of the Least ECM-ey ECM Album Covers going?

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

gonna be honest with you all; I really love the new Stereolab record

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'll digitize it somehow someway and will absolutely be posting it when it's up! This is one of the clips the director uploaded ages ago youtu.be/ok24pC-zsoM?...

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Escalator Over The Hill-selection 1

YouTube video by Steve gebhardt

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

an incredibly exciting gift from the record store homies that they found in a box; the full length making-of documentary of Escalator Over the Hill (which, from what I can tell, does not exist on the internet outside of a few short YouTube clips)

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Fritz Pape @fritzpape.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The Glowing Man always felt like a small tiptoe into self parody after the success To Be Kind and The Seer, but I'm glad they kept exploring this heaven music afterwards because this and The Beggar are really, really special